One of my greatest current fears around AI is that people will start making bad life decisions right now - like giving up on learning software development - because they panic that future AI is going to make their current effort pointless

Newer programmers struggle with how unforgiving computers are. The compiler doesn't care about what you mean; it only knows the language's grammar and the code that you wrote. Not sure how to teach that, or even say it, without it feeling very demoralizing.

31 years of the web, it's used for pretty much everything... and checkboxes are still near-impossible to get right.

I don't know what it is about Playwright in particular, but ChatGPT just doesn't understand it at all. I've asked it ten different questions today, and for every single one it hallucinated APIs. Then if I tell it that, it hallucinates another API. Then if I tell it that, it hallu

Some of my favorite stories selling what would become GitHub Enterprise early on was dealing with the culture changes back then. I had a number of large banks tell me — with a straight face — "how can you possibly have quality software if you deploy more than once a quarter?"

Pronouncing mdutil: 🧠 "emm-dee-you-till" 🧠🧠 "emm-dee-yootle" 🧠🧠🧠 "emm-doodle" 🧠🧠🧠🧠 "mmdoodle"

who in the hell called them security researchers and not sudoscientists

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In Python, it's a trace back. In Ruby, it's a back trace. In Java, it's a stack trace. All we need now is a trace stack.

who in hell called it "LCD Soundsystem Share “Dance Tonite” VR Experience | Pitchfork" and not "Get AnOculus!"